Second, I mean no disrespect, but I wonder what that means in terms of the Joplin Schools audit? Must the auditor personally deliver the results ? Can someone from his office deliver it? Would it have to be redone (I assume not)? While I hate to hear he has passed away, I would hate to see those audit results delayed too long (past elections).

12:29.No, the State Auditor does not have to report the findings personally, but in higher-profile cases, they like to. Nothing needs to be changed at all. I do doubt that the findings will take place this next week, though.

The audit is complete. So now it must be delivered to the city. It belongs to the tax payers. I find it very strange. I hope there are investigators NOW at the scene. Cameras, phone records, emails, texts.... that will show who was communicating with him in the past two weeks, and had a motive to take him out. The report must show something egregious. There is no way he would have committed suicide. I don't buy it, but its just my opinion.

It seems a bit premature to start pointing fingers at locals before any evidence has been presented to implicate them. However, that being said, for a superintendent or school board members (or city council members) to be so corrupt that anyone would think they were capable of such is appalling. It is time to step down if your reputation is so damaged. Perhaps your covering up of the student/child porn on your tech leader's computer has fueled this low level of regard. The comments in earlier posts, plus the survey indicating that very few (fewer than 45%) of your employees can trust central office, is evidence enough to call for a change. We don't want you with our children anymore. Not any of you.

Was he also auditing the tax fund Wallace Bajjali created? Wonder if he discovered something there and the two thieves decided to muffle auditor for good. If they could abscond in the middle of the night like two flagrant criminals, what else are they capable of? This smells rotten. God bless his family. Poor man. Wonder how much he suffered?

Yes, what would they gain by a murder disguised as a suicide? The State Auditor doesn't actually perform the audits, he's responsible for seeing they get done properly. So an unrecognized murder is useless as a threat to those doing the work.

The school district audit is essentially done. He probably won't get replaced soon enough to make any difference to the city audit, and if a replacement, appointed by Nixon?, suddenly started curtailing audits, that would look too suspicious, and too likely to sweep up the replacement and others into a conspiracy to commit murder. Hard to imagine what could be enough of a payoff for that.

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I am a former teacher in the Joplin and Diamond, Missouri, school districts. Before entering the teaching field, I spent 22 years as a reporter and editor for various Southwest Missouri newspapers. I have published three novels, Small Town News, Devil's Messenger, and No Child Left Alive, and seven non-fiction books, The Turner Report, Newspaper Days, Silver Lining in a Funnel Cloud, Greed, Corruption, and the Joplin Tornado, 5:41: Stories from the Joplin Tornado, Spirit of Hope: The Year After the Joplin Tornado, Scars from the Tornado and Let Teachers Teach.

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